December, 2016: Vikas Mishra was awarded a Malcolm Feist Postdoctoral Fellowship to fund his studies examining the role of neuronal Kv1.1 channels in epilepsy and sudden death.
October, 2016: Hemangini Dhaibar and Vikas Mishra
won for best posters in the Graduate Student and Postdoc/Resident
categories, respectively, at the annual LSU Neuroscience Research Day.
June 23-26, 2016: Stephanie Villalba received a
travel award to present her research at the 2016 Partners Against
Mortality in Epilepsy (PAME) conference held in Alexandria, VA.
May, 2016: Hemangini Dhaibar passed her preliminary exam to become an official doctoral candidate.
March 12, 2016: Hemangini Dhaibar
won 3rd place at the 32nd Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference
(Shreveport, LA) for her poster describing respiratory abnormalities in a
mouse model of sudden death in epilepsy.